Detachment Services Assistant

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Assessment accommodation

HOW TO ANSWER SCREENING QUESTIONS

When submitting an application to this selection process, you will be prompted to answer screening questions concerning the essential education, and the essential and asset experience qualifications. Your responses to these questions will be used as a primary source of information and your resume may only be used to validate this information. Failing to do so could result in your application being rejected.

• Provide responses in sentence format.
• Each response must include concrete, specific examples that speak directly to the experience sought.
• Each example must include WHEN and WHERE the example took place, background of each situation, WHAT you did, HOW you did it, what your role was in the situation, and what was the outcome.
• Focus on what you did. In referring to an experience achieved in the context of a team, set your role apart from the role(s) of others.
• Simply listing your job duties, or indicating 'refer to resume', is not sufficient.

Work environment

The work is being performed in a police detachment environment. This results in occasional exposure to intoxicated mentally unstable, hostile and potentially violent individuals to victims of crime or relatives of accident victims who may be distraught. The work is performed in an open office environment. It involves tight deadlines, time pressures frequent interruptions, conflicting priorities and multiple demands from staff, callers and visitors.

Shiftwork is a mandatory condition of employment for these positions. You will be required to work rotational 10-hour shifts (7 days per week, 365 days per year, including weekends and statutory holidays). The current shifts are 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and 2:00 PM to 12:00 AM and are subject to change based on operational requirements.

Intent of the process

Intent to fill two (2) indeterminate and one (1) term position(s). A qualified pool of candidates may be established and may be used to staff similar positions or for future term, acting, assignment, secondment, deployment, or indeterminate opportunities.

Applicants are encouraged to apply ONLY if they are willing and able to work in or relocate to Selkirk.

Should a Civilian Member (CM) be found qualified and selected for appointment, the appointment will not result in a change of status to the Public Service (PS) category for the CM.

Positions to be filled: 3

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Successful completion of two years of secondary school or employer-approved alternatives

Degree equivalency

Experience providing clerical or administrative support services

Experience using word processing software (such as Microsoft Word)

Experience using spreadsheet software (such as Microsoft Excel)

Experience providing service to internal or external clients

Ability to communicate effectively orally
Ability to communicate effectively in writing
Ability to prioritize and multitask
Ability to work in a team

Demonstrating integrity and respect
Showing initiative and being action-oriented
Thinking things through
Dependability
Adaptability
Thoroughness
Results oriented

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

Successful completion of secondary school education.

Degree equivalency

Experience manipulating data in an electronic database (such as SAP, PeopleSoft, Microsoft Access)

Experience providing administrative support services in a law enforcement, judicial or quasi-judicial environment.

Experience providing financial support services. (Services may include, but are not limited to, verifying and correcting financial claims, controlling and monitoring petty cash, preparing financial status reports, etc.)

Experience maintaining a law enforcement database such as: Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC), Police Reporting and Occurrence System (PROS)?

Experience in providing records management services such as indexing, cross-referencing, filing, retrieving, retaining, archiving or destroying data.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Willingness and ability to work in a busy police environment, including exposure to unsettling and/or graphic material.

Willingness and ability to work overtime, as required.

Conditions of employment

RCMP Enhanced Reliability Status (ERS) security clearance*.

*All applicants for positions within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will be subject to a thorough security clearance process which includes an interview wherein questions may include (but not limited to), reference checks, previous employment, on-line activities, credit checks, alcohol and/or drug use.

Willingness and ability to work a variable shift schedule and shift work

Willingness and ability to work alone.

Willingness and ability to travel for work and/or training purposes using various modes of transportation (including owned or leased government transport, commercial and light aircraft and up to and including remote locations).

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

Communication for this process will only be sent via email. As the applicant, it is your responsibility to ensure accurate contact information is provided and that you inform our office via email of any updates as required. Ensure you include an email address you can access from home and that it accepts email from unknown users. You are strongly encouraged to check your email on a regular basis, including your junk mail folder.

All communication relating to this process, including e-mail correspondence and responses to screening questions, may be used in the assessment of qualifications, including the ability to communicate effectively in writing.

All applicants for positions within the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will be subject to a thorough security clearance process which includes an interview wherein questions may include (but not limited to), reference checks, previous employment, on-line activities, credit checks, alcohol and/or drug use.

An exam may be administered. An interview may be administered. Reference checks may be sought.

Assessment for this process will take place in Selkirk, Manitoba. The cost to attend the assessment will be the candidate's responsibility. If you are currently employed with the Federal Public Service, please let us know by email your current group, level, tenure and the Department you are working for.

Appointment decisions may be based on one or more of the following criteria: Matching of the individual's experience or qualifications to the strengths and weaknesses of the work team; Matching of the individual's experience or qualifications to the specific duties of the position being staffed; Depth, breadth, type of work-specific experience; Level/degree of one or more competencies/qualifications.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.